# Event Details

- **Event Name**: RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Sydney
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am – Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am (+10:00)
- **Event Description**: An embodied movement workshop where we remember that change is not an interruption of life but the oldest rhythm we belong to.



Workshop over one evening and one full day:

Fri, 10 Apr 6pm - 9pm

Sat, 11 Apr 10am - 6pm

Glebe Town Hall, Sydney





About:

We will gather inside a story far older than the colonial moment.




Te Kore ~ the fertile nothing, the shimmering field of potential.

Te Pō ~ the long night where forms loosen, where certainty softens, where what has been begins to dissolve.

Te Whai Ao ~ the reaching toward that first bit of understanding.

Te Ao Mārama ~ the world of illumination, right relationship, and responsibility.




This sequence is not myth as metaphor alone.

It is a living map of transformation that moves through whenua | land

through cosmos, through body, through collective time.

It reminds us that failure, uncertainty are not weakness,

and endings are not the opposite of life ~ but the conditions that allow life to continue.




We meet at a moment when the colonial project is visibly fraying

and something unnamed is pressing to be born.

Many of us can feel the instability, the grief, the disorientation,

and also the quiet insistence that another way of living is possible.




Not a return to innocence !!!!! A maturing of right relationship.




This wānanga//workshop moves with te kore and te pō as necessary spaces of change.

Spaces where we do not rush to answers.

Where we learn to stay present with what is ending,

to listen beneath the noise of urgency and the grasp of control

to feel how transformation is already happening in soil, in season, in breath, in tide.

Workshop ticketing options:

1. Community Ticket $120
A lower-cost option for those needing support right now.

2. Sustaining Ticket $160
The balanced, true-cost exchange.

3. Solidarity Ticket $200
Contributes extra to strengthen access and collective resilience.

4. Friday Evening - Threshold pass - $35/$30
Join the opening circle and embodied gathering on Friday night.
A standalone option or a doorway into the full experience.

Scholarships and payment plans available. Please be in touch if you would like to arrange these options:
email Caitlin - blackcockatoostudio@gmail.com










Change is something we enter, witness, and learn to move with.

Through embodied practice, movement, ritual, and collective inquiry,

we explore how colonisation lives not only in systems

but in nervous systems, habits of perception, and ways of relating.




And how healing is not an abstract idea

but a lived re-patterning toward right relationship

with whenua with each other, with ancestors,

with the more-than-human world,

and with the futures asking to arrive through us.




Because the worlds we inherit are shaped by what we are willing to feel, to face, and to create together.

This gathering is a decolonisation awareness wānanga




Not as concept >>> but as lived practice.




A space to notice what is ending,

to honour what must be grieved,

and to sense what is already growing.




We will move between stillness and motion,

between personal reflection and collective field,

between the ordinary gestures of care

and the depth of ritual.




Because we are changing.




Because the world is changing.




Because even now, inside uncertainty,




the light of te ao mārama




is waiting to be lived differently this time.




This wānanga is held with deep respect of the Indigenous peoples of this place now called Australia | Te Whenua Moemoea ~ the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations

whose sovereignty has never been ceded.

It is for those walking the layered paths of responsibility, relationship, and repair within lands shaped by colonisation.

For those willing to listen, to unlearn, to remember, and to move differently in service of collective futures grounded in care,

truth, and right relationship with whenua and with each other.



About Kaia/ Manahau Embodied Movement:

MANAHAU EMBODIED MOVEMENT

MOVE.MEANT AS MIHI
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Manahau Embodied Movement is the meeting of Te Ao Måori, Open Floor Movement Practice, Rongoa Toi and Ringa toi practices.

Manahau Embodied Movement has been born out of the seven years of teaching Open Floor Movement Curriculum with Måori tikanga, kaupapa, and Måori world views | Te Ao Måori.  The tipping point came when teaching at Te Papa National Museum of Aotearoa for the first Indigenous Public holiday MATARIKI 2022. So began Manahau Embodied Movement. 

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Manahau Movement kaupapa is to create Indigenized dance floors/movement spaces, so we can decondition ourselves and stand with our MANA MOTUHAKE - self-sovereignty,

Mana Tangata, Mana Atua, Mana Whenua.   

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The Five Pou of Manahau Embodied Movement.

Manawa | Rongoa | Hau tu a Rongo | Ahuatanga | Ringa toi |

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This practice is a resourcing type of DANCE where people come together to express themselves through MOVEMENT, CREATIVITY, MUSIC & COMMUNITY... BUT NOT IN A CHOREOGRAPHED WAY!!

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At Manahau Movement we encourage you to listen to your body with your body Whakarongo, Whaka.Rongo. Only you can do you and that amazing body brain you have, will do the rest. 




Refund Policy

As this wānanga involves travel from Aotearoa (New Zealand) and significant preparation costs, refunds are not available within two weeks of the workshop start date.

Cancellations made more than two weeks in advance may receive a partial refund, minus any non-recoverable expenses already incurred. If you are unable to attend, you are welcome to transfer your place to another person with prior notice.

Thank you for understanding the care, commitment, and resources required to bring this work across the moana.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pyrmont/rituals-of-change-with-kaia-hawkins-aotearoa-nz-~-sydney/200029753563514
- **Event Categories**: workshops, meetups, holiday
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 49

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Pyrmont
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Glebe Town Hall
- **lat**: -33.88259
- **long**: 151.1851
- **full address**: Glebe Town Hall, 160 St Johns Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia, Pyrmont

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Sydney being held?
  - **A:** RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Sydney takes place on Fri, 10 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am to Sat, 11 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am at Glebe Town Hall, 160 St Johns Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia, Pyrmont.
- **Q**: Who is organizing RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Sydney?
  - **A:** RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Sydney is organized by Dancing Freedom Sydney.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Sydney is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Pyrmont, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If RITUALS OF CHANGE with Kaia Hawkins (Aotearoa/NZ) ~ Sydney sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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